Amd Wants To Hire People With Experience Of Intel's New Silicon...

If nothing else, the positive noise around Intel's new nodes seems to be increasing.

Has AMD decided to have its arch rival, Intel, manufacture chips in the USA? That's the dramatic conclusion some observers are drawing from a job ad posted by AMD.

According to this post on X, AMD is looking for new hires with experience of "taping out" chips with "PowerVia" technology. "This is HUGE!" the post concludes.

You heard it here first: AMD $AMD is planning to use Intel $INTC foundry to manufacture chips in the USA (not just packaging). During my job listing research, I uncovered a job listing posted by AMD that mentions Intel’s “PowerVia” under preferred experience… This is HUGE! pic.twitter.com/BSZgjadWDODecember 12, 2025

For sure, the Intel connection is clear enough. "PowerVia" is Intel's branding for what's known more generically in the chip-making industry as backside power. In the simplest terms, it's a new technology that involves moving the power delivery networks in chips below the transistors. It's claimed to result in faster and more efficient chips.

What's more, PowerVia is being introduced on Intel's upcoming Intel 18A node. Put all that together with Intel's stated desire to make chips for all comers on its new process nodes, the fact that "taping out" refers to how chip designs are finalised and sent to the factory for manufacturing and the broader impetus to bring chip manufacturing back to the US, and you have one possible and pretty exciting conclusion: AMD is going to make chips with Intel.

Of course, that is but one conclusion. It's also possible that AMD is merely evaluating Intel's new nodes and wants some hires with experience of Intel's latest tech.

Indeed, if you want to cover off all the bases, you'd have to account for the possibility that AMD has no real intention to make chips with Intel, but that if it wants to maximise the use of Intel as a bargaining tool against TSMC, where AMD currently makes most of its chips, it could pay to understand Intel's offering really well.

That's particularly true when you consider that TSMC, too, is planning on introducing backside power on its future A16 node, due to go into volume production late next year. On paper, this puts Intel ahead of TSMC when it comes to introducing backside power. And that could be a stick with which AMD might gently tap TSMC.

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Source: PC Gamer